The Venetian regional election of 1985 took place on 12 May 1985. Veneto 1985

Events

Christian Democracy Christian democracy (sometimes named Centrist democracy) is a political ideology that emerged in 19th-century Europe under the influence of Catholic social teaching and neo-Calvinism. It was conceived as a combination of modern democratic ...

was by far the largest party, but for the first time since

1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of X (''Extrem ...

it was not able to secure an outright majority. The Venetian League, which would have become a stable political force in the Region, entered for the first time the Regional Council with two regional deputies. After the election Christian Democrat

Carlo Bernini Carlo Bernini (1936–2011) was an Italian academic, politician and businessman. Being a member of the Christian Democracy (DC) he served at the Italian Senate between 1992 and 1994 and was the minister of transport in the period 1989–1992. Bi ...

, the incumbent President of the Region, formed a government comprising also the

Italian Socialist Party The Italian Socialist Party (, PSI) was a socialist and later social-democratic political party in Italy, whose history stretched for longer than a century, making it one of the longest-living parties of the country. Founded in Genoa in 1892, ...

, the

Italian Democratic Socialist Party The Italian Democratic Socialist Party (, PSDI), also known as Italian Social Democratic Party, was a minor social-democratic political party in Italy. The longest serving partner in government for Christian Democracy, the PSDI had been an im ...

and the

Italian Liberal Party The Italian Liberal Party ( it, Partito Liberale Italiano, PLI) was a liberal and conservative political party in Italy. The PLI, which is the heir of the liberal currents of both the Historical Right and the Historical Left, was a minor party ...

. In 1989 Bernini, appointed minister in

Andreotti VI Cabinet The Andreotti VI Cabinet was a cabinet of the Italian Republic. It held office from 1989 to 1991. Andreotti was forced to resign after that the PRI left the majority. On 12 April 1991, he received once again the presidential mandate to form a n ...

, was replaced by Franco Cremonese, another Christian Democrat.

Results

Source
Regional Council of Veneto
/small>

References

{{Elections in Veneto Elections in Veneto 1985 elections in Italy